Shuffling nags, lame ducks : the archaeology of animal disease /

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Main Author: Bartosiewicz, L. (Author)

Other Authors: Gál, Erika.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2013].

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Call Number: CC79.5 .A5 B374 2013

Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts
  • History of studying pathological animal remains
  • Differences between human and animal paleopathology
  • Methodology
  • Growth, development and aging
  • Traumatic lesions
  • Inflammatory diseases and bone
  • Arthropathies
  • Pathological lesions in working animals
  • Diseases connected to the environment
  • Dental anomalies and oral pathology
  • Inherited disorders
  • Neoplastic and tumorous bones
  • Pathological changes in bird bones (Erica Gál)
  • Pathological lesions in fish remains
  • Concluding remarks.